9 Months Old!

Well, we are a little slow posting Caleb's nine month pictures! He turned nine months old on May 13th. He learning so many new things right now! It seems like every day he is doing something new! At his nine month appointment he weighed 16 lbs. 14 oz. (6th percentile) and he was 28 inches long (49th percentile). He is right where he is supposed to be developmentally. The doctor gives a handout with what nine month olds might be doing at this stage and Caleb is doing everything. He can go from laying down to sitting up and back again. He commando crawls (on his stomach) all over the house and he is curious about everything. Especially everything that he is not supposed to touch! He gets on his hands and knees and rocks and the last couple days he has been trying to crawl on his hands and knees more and more. He is starting to pull himself up to standing. He can pull himself up to his knees easily and usually if he is holding onto Todd or myself he pops right up to his feet. He claps his hands, can sign "more" when he wants more food, and will put his arms up in the air when we ask him how big he is. He shakes his head "no" when he doesn't want anymore food or doesn't want to do something. He is a big time thumb sucker. That is something we will have to work on. His thumb goes in his mouth quite often, especially when he is upset or tired. He is starting to babble and will say bababa or dadada sometimes. Whenever he is excited or curious he will purse his lips together and say "ohh". It is really cute! He loves dogs and gets excited whenever he sees one! He is sleeping around 10 hours a night and then two 1 to 2 hour naps during the day. He has been trying some different foods this past month. We gave him meat for the first time last week. He is not a big fan of it by itself but will eat it if I mix it with other food that he likes. We are trying to give him some finger foods but he is not a big fan. We tried to give him a cut up banana and he gagged until he threw up. It was pretty dramatic. He does like goldfish though! I was eating some one day so I gave him a piece and he just wanted to eat more and more of them! We will keep trying different foods and see what we can get him to eat. I am sure there are many more things he is doing, but that is all I can think of right now! We are enjoying beautiful weather here and are spending a lot of time outside. Hopefully the pretty weather will continue!

Nine month pose!

He loves to crawl under his exersaucer and play!

Caleb's first time in an outside swing. He loved it!

Caleb enjoys making music with his wooden spoon and bowl.

He loves standing up to play with his toys!